9.

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation”

16.

“Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders”

19.

“The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake”

10.

“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves”

5.

“All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess”

18.

“Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack”

1.

"When you see a good move, look for a better one”

7.

“The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us”

4.

“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chess player's nature”

12.

“Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events”

13.

“Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!”

11.

“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game”

17.

“Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists”

20.🎉

“Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind”

2.

“Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty”

+1

“Chess is like war on a board”

6.

“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror”

8.

“Adequate compensation for a sacrifice is having a sound combination leading to a winning position; adequate compensation for a blunder is having your opponent snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”

15.

"I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess; Others give only 2 percent"